Over time, I watched businesses close and move out, the center fall into disrepair, it become virtually abandoned by the out-of-state owner, and finally clinging to life with the faint pulse of a sole business - a modestly successful local gym.

First thing before digging too deep into the other parts of DD is to do a virtual view of the house.

Additionally right now we're seeing historic availability in the credit markets with the Fed funds rate being virtually zero.  

I wanted to see if anyone knows where to get a real good virtual assistant?  

There are a good amount of others doing similar virtual investing fro within and outside the US, so you are in good company.  

In general I do find quads typically do have twice the cash flow and/or equity gain of duplexes but not in your scenario where the rents of property are virtually the same.From the info provided I would definitely choose the duplex but there was minimal information provided. 

Personally, i almost never (only if appreciation is HUGE and virtually guaranteed) use appraised or sales comps for valuing income or rentals.  

Do you have a real estate agent/broker as part of your virtual team?

Either way, unless I get a virtual assistant, there will be lag times on sites.  

Domain names are like virtual land and building a website on it is like building a virtual house.Have you ever spent more than the traditional $11.99 for your domain name on godaddy?